高考英语一轮复习 Unit1 Great scientists导学案 新人教版必修5-新人教版高三必修5英语学案

河北省武邑中学 2016 届高考英语一轮复习 Unit1 Great scientists 导学案 新人教版必修 5JOHN SNOW DEFEATS “KING GHOLERA”John Snow was a famous doctor in London — so expert, indeed, that he attended Queen Victoria 1.____her personal physician. But he became 2.______(inspire) when he thought about helping ordinary people 3._________ (expose) to cholera. This was the deadly disease of its day. Neither its cause 4.______its cure was understood. So many thousands of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak. John Snow wanted to face the challenge and solve this problem. He knew that cholera would never be controlled 5._______ its cause was found.He became interested in two theories 6. _____ possibly explained how cholera killed people. The first suggested that cholera multiplied in the air. A cloud of dangerous gas floated around until it found its victims. The second suggested that people absorbed this disease into their bodies with their meals. From the stomach the disease quickly attacked the body and soon the 7. _________(affect) person died.John Snow suspected that the second theory was correct but he needed evidence. So when another outbreak hit London in 1854, he was ready to begin his enquiry. As the disease spread quickly through poor neighbourhoods, he began to gather information. In two particular streets, the cholera outbreak was so severe that more than 500 people died in ten days. He was determined to find out why.First he marked on a map the exact places 8. ________all the dead people had lived. This gave him a 9._________(value)clue about the cause of the disease. Many of the deaths were near the water pump in Broad Street (especially numbers 16, 37, 38 and 40). He also ...